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The Devotional Love of Natalie Merchant
When you are asked why you love someone, you can always give superficial reasons They re attractive, smart, kind, courageous whatever. But the true reason you love someone is perhaps much simpler and not so reductive
Psychology Today - Mon. Mar 7
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How Does Your Brain Learn Through Trial and Error?
In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active learning in real-time by photographing the brains of mice as they learn how-to problem solve through trial and error. Using advanced microscopy techniques, the researchers made time-lapse movies that illustrate how a mouse actively learns a new strategy for finding hidden treats during a foraging task. The films show dramatic rescul ...
Psychology Today - Mon. Mar 7
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HIV/AIDS long-term costs high -- and unaffordable to most-affected countries
Boston, MA - There will be a significant shortfall in the funding needed for HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa in the coming years and those countries with the highest HIV burden will be unable to meet their obligations on their own to sustain control efforts, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They calculate that the price tag for providing long-term HIV AIDS prevention and treatment in 2015-2050 in the n ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Mar 7
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Clinician communication reduced distress related to the detection of incidenta...
DENVER - A cross-sectional survey showed a quarter of patients with detected incidental pulmonary nodules experienced significant distress related to the nodule. Detailed clinician communication increased patient knowledge, relieved distress, and improved patient experience. The National Lung Cancer Screening Trial reported that three annual low-dose computed topography LDCT screens, in contrast to standard lung X-rays, can decrease lung cancer mortality b ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Mar 7
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Healthy lifestyle advice provides long-term benefits
In a recently published study, providing advice over a 5-year period about leading a healthy lifestyle reduced the risk of heart-related deaths over the next 40 years. Participants were advised to decrease the intake of saturated fats and increase fish and vegetable products. In addition, overweight individuals were advised to reduce their weight and smokers were advised to stop smoking. Those who received the advice showed a sustained 29 reduced risk of d ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Mar 7
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Scientists map roots of premeditated, violent 'intent' in animal brain
The bad intentions that often precede violence originate in a specific brain region, according to a study in mice led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center and published in Nature Neuroscience online March 7. The work is the first, say the study authors, to tie warning signs of premeditated violence -- stalking, bullying, and possibly sexual aggression -- to a distinct part of the hypothalamus, the brain region that also controls body temperature, ...
EurekAlert - Mon. Mar 7
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Cannabis use linked to worse treatment outcomes for psychosis patients
Patients experiencing a first episode of psychosis may endure worse treatment outcomes if they use cannabis, say researchers, after finding that such patients are 50 more likely to be admitted to the hospital after initial treatment than non-users of cannabis.
Medical News Today - Sun. Mar 6
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Harbaugh's Coaching Genius Strikes Again
Before Harbaugh took his team south for Spring Break, Michigan QB, Shane Morris tweeted, Best Spring Break trip ever coming up. So fun being back out there with the boys. Now it s Beach time tweeted QB Wilton Speight, during the trip. Practice in Florida over its been real tweeted Cornerback Jourdan Lewis, on the way home from the trip. It was an awesome experience for the whole team - players, coaches, and staff, says Michigan Tight End coach, Jay Harbaug ...
Psychology Today - Sun. Mar 6
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3 Reasons to Ditch Your Selfie Stick this Spring Break
Social media has completely transformed the experience of travel. Not just because dodging selfie sticks makes navigating tourist attractions harder but because tourists no longer even look at the monuments, piazzas, or works of art anymore. Instead, they turn their backs and look at themselves on a screen. The experience of art and history has been replaced with the experience of a digital representation of those things. We spend more time thinking about ...
Psychology Today - Sun. Mar 6
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Disease Mongering: Past, Present and Future
A friend and former colleague of mine Jack E. James of Reykjavik University has published a new book called The Health of Populations Beyond Medicine . It s an intriguing treatise that challenges the place of biomedicine as the dominant concern of modern healthcare. James argues that the global burden of illness should be tackled by targeting behavior change rather than by plowing millions of dollars into hospital-based secondary care. According to this vi ...
Psychology Today - Sun. Mar 6
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Omalizumab decreases colds in inner-city children with asthma, NIH study reports
Treatment with omalizumab significantly decreases the number of colds in inner-city children with allergic asthma, researchers reported at a press conference today at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology AAAAI 2016 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Omalizumab, sold under the brand name Xolair, is an injectable antibody that can be used to treat asthma cases not controlled by inhaled corticosteroids. These findings are a secondary result from ...
EurekAlert - Sun. Mar 6
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How Fiction Could Save Us All
You must stay drunk on writing so reality will not destroy you. - Ray Bradbury
Psychology Today - Sat. Mar 5
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